Revisit how Manifold deals with citations

[zdavis]

• [ ] Allow users to set specific citations
• [ ] Include URLs in the citation (depending on style)
• [ ] Let non-logged in users generate a citation
• [ ] Other improvements TBD

[zdavis]

Thank you for taking the time to open this feature request. The Manifold team reviewed this issue during our bi-weekly meeting and the consensus is that this feature makes sense and is in keeping with our overall vision for the platform. Moreover, we see this request as a viable candidate for development under our current available funding. We’re adding an “accepted” label to this request to indicate that it’s within scope and possibly within budget.

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[tsmyre]

In further support of this, I just received a request from an author to disentangle the citation generator from having to be a registered user. And in this case, the text we want to create cites for are more complex than the generator can aptly deal with, so I'm going to build in a suggested cite directly into the text. Being able to place that in the About the Text metadata section feels like it would be a more natural placement for that kind of content, however.